ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.12.1 Release Candidate 1

[Christian Maeder]

This new version of ghc can no longer read ISO-8859 text. Text is cut
off after the first non-ascii character (ie. ¢).

Is this somewhere documented? What is the recommended way to handle such
text?

Cheers Christian

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are pleased to (finally!) announce the first release candidate
> for GHC 6.12.1:
> 
>     http://darcs.haskell.org/~ghc/dist/6.12.1rc1/
> 
> As well as the source tarball:
>     ghc-6.12.0.20091010-src.tar.bz2
> there are installers for Windows (i386) and OS X (i386), and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. For the Linux binary
> distributions, the "linux-n" tarballs are recommended over the "linux"
> tarballs.
> 
> 
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team